There is an old story about two men going fishing on a lake in a boat way out in the middle of nowhere. After awhile one of the men reaches into his tackle box and pulls out a stick of dynamite. His friend, quite alarmed, asks, “Is that legal?” The man with the dynamite lights it, hands it to his friend and says, “Are you gonna talk or are you gonna fish?”
Jesus said, “Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men..” Andy Stanley says, “If you are not fishing for men (evangelizing) you didn’t turn out alright, no matter what your mother says.”
Fishing for fish in the Sea of Galilee consisted of going out in a boat between 20 and 30 feet long with big nets at night with torches. The light brought the fish to the top and then the nets gathered them in. But on the night before Luke 5:1-11, Peter and his fellow fishermen worked all night and caught nothing. But when Jesus told Peter to launch out into the deep water and fish some more, Peter obeyed. He caught so many fish that his almost net broke. It took two boats to bring all those fish in. Peter knew that Jesus had done a miracle. His response was to fall down and confess that he was a sinful man. With a resume like that, Peter was ready to forsake all and follow Jesus on a three year training cycle that resulted in a sermon on the day of Pentecost that brought 3,000 people into the “Jesus Net”.
How about you? Are you going to talk or fish? Think about it!
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